The Thought-reader Of Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDC EFEFCF GHGHIH JKJKCK LMMMNM OMOMPM QMQMRM OSOSMS MMMMSM MMMMSM OTOTUT MVMVMV WMWMXM| Reported By Truthful James | A |
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| We hev tumbled ez dust | B |
| Or ez worms of the yearth | C |
| Wot we looked for hez bust | B |
| We are objects of mirth | C |
| They have played us old Pards of the river they hev played us for | D |
| all we was worth | C |
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| Was it euchre or draw | E |
| Cut us off in our bloom | F |
| Was it faro whose law | E |
| Is uncertain ez doom | F |
| Or an innocent Jack pot that opened was to us ez the jaws of the | C |
| tomb | F |
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| It was nary It kem | G |
| With some sharps from the States | H |
| Ez folks sez All things kem | G |
| To the fellers ez waits | H |
| And we'd waited six months for that suthin' had me and Bill Nye in | I |
| such straits | H |
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| And it kem It was small | J |
| It was dream like and weak | K |
| It wore store clothes that's all | J |
| That we knew so to speak | K |
| But it called itself Billson Thought Reader which ain't half a | C |
| name for its cheek | K |
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| He could read wot you thought | L |
| And he knew wot you did | M |
| He could find things untaught | M |
| No matter whar hid | M |
| And he went to it blindfold and smiling being led by the hand like | N |
| a kid | M |
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| Then I glanced at Bill Nye | O |
| And I sez without pride | M |
| You'll excuse US We've nigh | O |
| On to nothin' to hide | M |
| But if some gent will lend us a twenty we'll hide it whar folks | P |
| shall decide | M |
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| It was Billson's own self | Q |
| Who forked over the gold | M |
| With a smile Thar's the pelf | Q |
| He remarked I make bold | M |
| To advance it and go twenty better that I'll find it without being | R |
| told | M |
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| Then I passed it to Nye | O |
| Who repassed it to me | S |
| And we bandaged each eye | O |
| Of that Billson ez we | S |
| Softly dropped that coin in his coat pocket ez the hull crowd | M |
| around us could see | S |
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| That was all He'd one hand | M |
| Locked in mine Then he groped | M |
| We could not understand | M |
| Why that minit Nye sloped | M |
| For we knew we'd the dead thing on Billson even more than we | S |
| dreamed of or hoped | M |
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| For he stood thar in doubt | M |
| With his hand to his head | M |
| Then he turned and lit out | M |
| Through the door where Nye fled | M |
| Draggin' me and the rest of us arter while we larfed till we | S |
| thought we was dead | M |
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| Till he overtook Nye | O |
| And went through him Words fail | T |
| For what follers Kin I | O |
| Paint our agonized wail | T |
| Ez he drew from Nye's pocket that twenty wot we sworn was in his own | U |
| coat tail | T |
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| And it WAS But when found | M |
| It proved bogus and brass | V |
| And the question goes round | M |
| How the thing kem to pass | V |
| Or if PASSED woz it passed thar by William and I listens and | M |
| echoes Alas | V |
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| For the days when the skill | W |
| Of the keerds was no blind | M |
| When no effort of will | W |
| Could beat four of a kind | M |
| When the thing wot you held in your hand Pard was worth more than | X |
| the thing in your mind | M |
Bret Harte
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